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“Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam” inspires

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By Jocelyn Chui Northwest Asian Weekly Before actor Trieu Tran turned his personal story into a play, it was hard to imagine the torment Vietnamese immigrants had to

Telling a “Tokyo Story”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly When the British Film Institute’s prestigious monthly magazine Sight & Sound published the new results of its once-a-decade poll for the title of greatest […]

Son reads dead father’s diary at Writers Read event

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Though Kamekicha Tokita has been dead since 1948, his work took center stage at the latest

A-pop! Controversy abound: plastic beauty queens and R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Pinkberry mogul

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All things Asian in popular culture! By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Do you hear that sizzle? No, it’s not the sound of an egg cooking on the sidewalk, as […]

Seattle Opera marries artistic visions of East and West — Part 1 of a 2 part series: Behind the scenes of Turandot

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By Samantha Test Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle’s latest opera, “Turandot,” is a love story.

A controversial artist revealed in “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly When Alison Klayman headed to China for an “adventure,” as she puts it, she got what she was expecting, and more. While studying history […]

A Tom Hardy classic reborn in Winterbottom’s “Trishna”

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By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly U.K.-born director Michael Winterbottom made his reputation

A-pop! Summer blockbusters and new opportunities

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All things Asian in popular culture By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly From America to Japan, June was a month of rebooting in the world of pop culture. This meant […]